(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . USPS Update: There is no update [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-14 Nothing to report here. There were two vacancies at the end of 2022. It appears that Biden’s awesome team can’t bother to find two people in a country of 340,000,000 people who are qualified to join that board. So the old DeJoy sycophants remain on the board and DeJoy continues to dismantle the USPS in order to send more business to private companies, including ones he has had long financial connections with. WTF? I mean really. We control the Senate. Why can’t Biden’s people get this job done? It is things like this that make Americans wonder if EVERYBODY in Washington is hopelessly corrupt. www.savethepostoffice.com/… Biden could nominate one Democrat and one Independent immediately. (The law prohibits more than 4 Governors from the same party, but Biden can certainly nominate independents rather than DeJoy suck-ups.) There are two former Representatives who are seeking that Democratic slot. Why can’t Biden get this done? How hard can this possibly be? www.govexec.com/… Meanwhile, my service continues to degrade. Last week I had a priority mail package take 8 days to go 200 miles. It arrived in my city on the second day and then was sent 500 miles away and took another week to make it back here. Same thing seems to be happening this week with a package I need by Thursday. It entered the USPS system last Wednesday in Salt lake City and according to the tracking has only moved 10 miles so far. If Biden would get off his ass and make these nominations, we would have a board consisting of two Trump-appointed Republicans, one Biden-appointed Republican plus 4 Democrats, and 2 Independents appointed by Biden. Surely that would be enough to get rid of DeJoy. So why isn’t it happening? Are Biden and every member of his stall just too doggone busy crowing about how good they are at shooting $100 balloons with $100,000 missiles? Well, check out this article from the right-wing think tank Lexington Institute. It says Biden isn’t doing anything because that’s the way he wants it. Biden doesn’t want to fire DeJoy and by not filling these vacancies, Biden can maintain the status quo without taking any heat — or so that’s the theory. We need to bring the heat. www.lexingtoninstitute.org/… =========== Addendum at 12:25 PM EST on Feb 14, 2023 There is still considerable misunderstanding about the role of Postmaster General. It is true that the PM General is hired by the Board of Governors and the President (theoretically) has no part in that. However, the President has the absolute right to fire any or all Governors for cause at any time. Biden chose not to do that, even though the systematic degradation of service leading to the 2020 election, the destruction of millions of dollars of government property, and the resulting precipitous drop in service levels certainly represented sufficient cause for the termination of the entire board. Biden has, so far, placed 3 Democrats, one independent, and one Republican on the board. Had he chosen people who were committed to cleaning up the USPS mess, that would ALREADY be a majority to oust DeJoy. Obviously, Biden did not care enough to select people who would remove DeJoy. And since December 2022, Biden has inexplicably allowed 2 DeJoy sycophants to remain beyond the end of their term, including DINO and DeJoy enabler Lee Moak, who was appointed by Trump. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/14/2152872/-USPS-Update-There-is-no-update Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/